Sirshendu Rakshit wrote: > Hi, > > I am using UnixMailbox to parse an mbox file. This mbox file starts with > the following lines. > > From [EMAIL PROTECTED] Tue May 18 01:43:12 2004 >>From [EMAIL PROTECTED] Tue May 18 01:43:12 2004 > Return-Path: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > X-Original-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Delivered-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > .... > ... > > Now what I am seeing is that the '>From [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Tue May 18 01:43:12 2004' line is being returned as mail header by > UnixMailbox. > Which is not the case. I am not sure whether this is a bug in > UnixMailbox. Or is it not handled in Active Python 2.3.5. > > The http://www.qmail.org/man/man5/mbox.html > link says that while reading a mbox the >From_line should be stripped off. > > Please help me out.
I believe the difference between UnixMailbox and other types is that the UnixMailbox is specifically designed to identify the gaps between messages by the blank line and the "From ....". While this isn't technically RFC 2822 format, it's useful to have the header. If you don't want it you can always throw it away ... regards Steve -- Steve Holden +1 571 484 6266 +1 800 494 3119 Holden Web LLC http://www.holdenweb.com/ -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
